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(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1. G. MONRATH & W. M. GIBBONS.

ELEOTRO THERAPEUTIC APPLIANCE.

Patented Aug. 12, 1890.

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No. 434,024. Patented Aug. 12, 1890; F1 Fgfi Fig- 1M7 W144 4144 14 HI IH I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

.GUSTAV MONRATI-I AND \VILLIAM M. GIBBONS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS,

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 434,024, dated August 12, 1890.

Application filed December 3, 1887. Serial No. 256,922. (No model.) I

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, GUSTAV MONEATH, a Danish subject, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, and WIL} LIAM M. GIBBONS, a citizen of the United States, also residing at said city, in the county and State aforesaid, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Electro- Therapeutical Appliances, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description,'reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form part of this specification.

Our invention relates generally to electromedical apparatus wherein a constant current of electricity is employed in the treatment of muscular and nervous diseases or other physiological irregularities, but more particularly to the construction and operative arrangement of apparatus employed for such purposes, whereby improved and highlyefficacious means are provided for therapeutically employing the electrical current. To this end the invention consists in the matters hereinafter set forth, and pointed out in the appended claims. I

The prominent features of the invention are fully shown in the accompanying drawings, which illustrate one of the many forms of construction and arrangement of which it is capable, it being preliminarily noted that it is our purpose to employ our invention in the form of a mattress, as a pillow, chair, or the like, as a bed-covering, articles of wearing-apparel, &c.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view substantially illustrating the manner in which our invention would be with the mattress.

of one end of the battery-box, showing the contact-points and switch-lever. Fig. 5 is an inside elevation of the said end of the battery-box, showing the said contact-points, the manner of connecting the said wires therewith, and the wire-connection between the switch-lever and the contact through which the circuit is completed between the battery end of the battery-box opposite to the end thereof shown in Fig. 3. Fig.8 is aview, mainly diagrammatic, of the end of the battery-box opposite to the end shown in Figs. 4 and 5, showing the contact-points, the manner of connecting the Wires from the cells of the battery therewith, the switch-lever, and contact, through which the circuit is completed between said lever and the conductors of the mattress, the said lever being shown in operative position. Fig. 9 is a diagrammatic view of the multiple-cell battery, which We desirably employ in conjunction with the mattress. Figs. 10 and 11 are side and end views, respectively, intended to further illustrate the manner of running the wires from the battery to the contact-points located at the end of the battery-box shown in Figs. 4 and 5, and the circuit, as described, between said contact-points through the switch-lever with the contact through which electrical connection is made with the conductors of the mattress.

Referring by letter to the several figures of the drawings, in which like letters indicate like parts, A indicates the frame of a mattress constructed on the ordinary spring-mattress principle, the upper portion B, formed mainly of .wool, cotton, or other suitable material, being covered with a textile fabric 0,

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tion between the electrodes is made in any said conductors b, and being provided with a suitable switch is operative to increase or decrease, as maybe desired, the sum of the cu'rrent which flows therefrom through said conductors. The said battery is desirably composed, as shown, of twen t y-seven cells, but in I practice the same may be increased or decreased in number, as may be deemed most advantageous. Each cell is composed of a sheet of zinc (Z and a plate of carbon (1, separated 1 by a glass or wood plate 61 which snugly refor treatment being placed upon the mattress cesses in the side plates or walls 6 of the battery-box, which for convenience and economy of construction is preferably composed of wood. The space between each carbon and zinc plate is filled with wood saw-dust (1 or other suitable saturable material suitable for the required purpose, which is saturated with a solution of sal ammoniac or other Connecwell-known operative manner. Each end of the said battery-box is provided with nine contact-points, each of which has connection through a wire (1 with three elements of the battery. wise provided with a switch-lever F, which has suitable electrical connection with the conductors b of the mattress through contacts ff and a conductor E. The relative arrangement of the said contact-points and the switch-lever is such with reference to the elements of the battery and the conductors Z) of the mattress that as contact is made between said lever and said points in a direction from zero toward the increasing numbers which indicate said contact-points, a greater number of elements of the battery are thrown into circuit, amplifying the nected with the negative-poles, of respective series of cells, the conductors I) being alter- Each end of the said box is likenately connected with the conductors F, which connect, respectively, with said contact-points.

The main purpose which we have in view in providing contact-points and switching devices at each end of the battery-box is to enable the perfect control of the current operatively from either side of the mattress.

The contact f, which connects with the conductor F, is arranged and adapted to subserve two purposes-to wit, forming a swinging latch (see Fig. 1) which secures the battery-box in position within the mattressframe, also enabling its removal, and a contact which completes the circuit between the battery and the conductors of the mattress.

. The operation of the apparatus thus described is as follows: The current being regulated by means of either one of the said contact-points and the switch-lever, passes from the battery to the conductors b, traversing the same, as indicated by the arrows shown in Fig. (5, to the source of energy. A subject and making contact with certain of the conductors b, electrically connected with the opposite poles of the battery, the current is established through the body of the subject or through a member thereof, as the case may be. \Vhile it is generally desirable that actual contact should be made with the said conductors b, such contact is not always essential to efficacious treatment.

While we have adopted, as shown in the accompanying illustrations, a very simple and desirable form of battery for employment in conjunction with the form of mattress herewith shown, which form of battery we should also preferably employ with our appliance when in the form of a pillow, chair, or the like, it is obvious that other forms of currentsupply may be employed effectively without departing from the spirit and scope of our invention. e therefore do not limit ourselves to the details of construction and arrangement shown and described, except as is set forth in the appended claims; but all appliances embracing the principles embodied in the construction and operative arrangement herein shown and described are deemed to be within the intent and scope of our invention.

that we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. As a new article of manufacture for electro-therapentical purposes, a fabric composed of cotton, silk, or other material suitable for non-conducting purposes, provided with conductors of electricity 6, interwoven or otherwise suitably arranged in connection therewith, the said conductors being alternately connected with conductors adapted to be connected, respectively, with the opposite poles of a battery, substantially as described.

2. The combination,witha fabric composed in the main of non-conducting material provided with conductors b, interwoven or otherpose of amplifying the strength of cnrrents 1o wise operatively arranged in conjunction admitted to said conductors, snbstantlally as therewith, the conductors F, to which the and for the purpose set forth.

conductors b are alternately connected, of a GUSTAV MONRATH multiple battery, the cells of which are ar- TILT IAM M GIBBONS ranged, as described, in series, which series are connected with contact-points adapted to Witnesses:

be switched into connection with said con- GEO. WV. LEVIN, dnctors b by a suitable switch for the pur- JOHN MEYER.

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